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Boyden Hall, Room 409
Newark, NJ 07102
Field of specialization: Microbial ecology and symbiosis
I am a microbial evolutionary ecologist with focus on insect-microbial symbiosis and eco-evolutionary dynamics. I endeavor to understand how insects have evolved with microbial symbionts as an interface between them and their environments, and how microorganisms can be used to test and further develop eco-evolutionary theory. Research in my lab is aimed at understanding why we observe the relationships that we do in nature, and so we use fieldwork, bench work (both culture work and molecular biology), and the synthesis of large ‘omics datasets in a variety of systems, to get at the answers.
Courses Taught
Graduate Level Evolution 26:120:532
Education
BSc University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2007
MSc University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 2011
PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA 2018
Publications
See Google Scholar profile or visit lab website.